Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tribute to his memory, the members of the family of Caesar Cone have decided to see that all depositors in the Textile Bank and its successor, the Textile Branch . . . shall receive full payment of the balances to which they are entitled...
Prospects for the election of Harvard's next president before Commencement received a serious setback yesterday with the announcement that no name was submitted to the Board of Overseers at its meeting yesterday afternoon. It is now considered more than likely that final action on President Lowell's successor will be put off until autumn...
Suggestions that Harvard might follow Princeton's example in the appointment of an acting president, heard recently because of the Corporation's seeming inability to fix upon a new head, received short shrift in semi-official quarters yesterday. President Lowell, it is believed, will continue in office until his successor is appointed, even if that should prolong his term far into next year. His resignation, tendered last November, takes effect when his successor is appointed and ready to assume his duties, preferably at the end of this year...
...Corporation's delay in choosing President Lowell's successor is in contrast to the alacrity with which President Lowell's own election passed through the Corporation and Overseers. President Eliot resigned on October 26, 1908 and by early February of the following year his successor had been named. A situation similar in this respect to the present one arose, however, in 1868, the year of Eliot's election. Disturbed by a sense of impending change and a feeling of uncertainty, the Overseers delayed for five months before allowing the Corporation to proceed to the election of a president. Even after...
...Britain and was afraid to go home became so loud that Pennsylvania's Senator Reed felt obliged to deny them in open Senate. Last week Mr. Mellon debarked from the Leviathan in Manhattan on his 78th birthday, quietly parried newshawks' questions. He said he had heard his successor, spruce young Judge Robert Worth Bingham of Kentucky, "favorably commented on" in London. Asked whether "beer will help much." he said, "What do you mean, help the thirsty?" Asked if he would rest now, he said: "Nobody rests. But I will be free, and I think I have reached...